Emery v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kalamazoo; North (Walter H.), J., presiding. Assumpsit by Elma L. Cahill-Emery against The Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corporation, limited, on a policy of burglary insurance. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
Plaintiff resides in the city of Kalamazoo with her husband and family. On November 16, 1916, Ralph Emery, her husband, took out a policy of insurance in the defendant company in which it agreed, in consideration of certain premiums then paid, to indemnify the assured against direct loss by burglary, theft or larceny of their personal property of the class described in a schedule annexed thereto, up to the amount of $1,000. Plaintiff was included among those named in the policy as the assured.
•In the fore part of June, 1917, plaintiff lost a diamond pin of the value of $750. She became…
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